Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rosmoylan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosmoylan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63216, -8.37442
- SMR number
- RO038-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-4.8m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.7-1.25m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.1-6.9m; Wth of base 2.2-3.1m; D 0.45-1m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.6-4.8m; H 0.1-0.85m), which is absent ESE-SSW. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 2m) and outer (Wth 3.5m) banks, but no causeway, at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.